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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 5-6-7 on page 270.
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%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{135.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{booktabs}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{@{}llr@{}}
\toprule
  \multicolumn{2}{c}{Item} &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Price/lb} \\
\cmidrule(r){1-2}\cmidrule(l){3-3}
  Food & Category & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\$}\\
\midrule
  Apples  & Fruit & 1.50  \\
  Oranges & Fruit & 2.00  \\
  Beef    & Meat  & 4.50  \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
